First Hit [Voice]

[courtneygears]

Ugh! What's going on? Looks like I'm stranded on some backwater planet. Doesn't anyone know how to repair a robot? You've turned me into some kind of organic lifeform - I've got skin and hair and too many fingers. You people obviously can't read either. My contract states all my specifications - heh, and they're pretty amazing, you know - but

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[voice]

[no3laws]

You-- How many fingers did you have before?

[voice forever!]

[courtneygears]

Six, duh. Any more than that is just a waste.

[ditto]

[no3laws]

Not really. What sort of robot were you?

[courtneygears]

Yes, really.

A singer! In my galaxy, everyone knows who I am.

[no3laws]

Having five fingers on each hand allows you to use the hand for more than one thing at a time. And also to type faster.

If you're a singer, why weren't you built to be more... humanoid?

[courtneygears]

You can't manage that with three fingers? I've always got along just fine.

Humanoid... you mean like a human? There aren't any humans in my galaxy. This is the first time I've heard of them.

[no3laws]

Well, three fingers are generally less manipulative and more "pick up and drop."

No humans? Are you another, er, "robotic lifeform" or were you made by some other species?

[courtneygears]

You wouldn't say that if you knew me. My fingers can manipulate anything they want.

I was made by the Blarg.

[no3laws]

Well, I'm only speaking from experience.

I've never heard of Blarg. Well, beyond a noise of discontent.

[courtneygears]

It sounds as though your experience could do with being... extended.

Well, if the only planet you know is this one, you wouldn't have.

[no3laws]

Well, not this planet precisely, but one like it.